no friday update today???

[jt_medina]

Originally Posted by CharveL

I'll take the old clouds and non-dynamic weather for now until my 5.9ghz octa-core cpu arrives, and just settle for good FM, DM, dynamic lighting, improved shadows & terrain, sound, etc.

I prefer not to fly at ~10fps but that's just me.

+1

As Oleg said...

20mm: What do you think today's simulation fans want (besides everything). Is it mostly gameplay, eye-candy, a dynamic campaign, a solid multiplayer, better-and-better AI, or some new element?

Oleg: I would say everything anyway! And when we give more and more, making 3D more and more close to a realistic image they never stop their complaints. Comments like, “This screw is not on the right place or this curl of the cloud doesn’t look good”. At the same time a few users would like too much realistic control of aircraft using all the devices like in real life. These are in minority. So there always should be the right calculated balance between realism and usability for a casual player, or we will be not able to sell the new product well and cover our expenses.

[BigC208]

30 Year glider pilot here. I also like the clouds to be more realistic than Il2 but...I don't like my sim experience to become a slide show. Just looking at the quality of the clouds in RoF or OFF, we know what's possible in todays flight sims. Oleg just overdid it a bit in the realism department. Bit off a too much, for the amount of time left to market. Frontal weather systems? Realistic airflow behaviour in and around convective weather? Icing simulation? You need a separate super computer to just crunch all those numbers.

I have no problem with using the old Il2 clouds as placeholders untill they have optimized the new weather so it'll be playable. What I'm hoping for is that he optimizes it for DX11 and multicore machines and GPU's. There is all this computing power outthere that is not being utilized.

If you have an older machine and don't want/can't upgrade, you get CoD with the old weather. If you're running an 990x or i2600k with 2 to 4 top of the line gpu's you're getting the full DX11 weather effects.

For the brave among us, Oleg is shipping the advanced weather with the game. You can use it in the full mission builder. Nice for screenshots or movies.